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Harshita Kalyan   |     |   Published 17.12.20, 02:26 AM The women are gathered in a group, clapping to keep the beat as one of them leads with a boli (couplet). The telltale signs say it could be a Punjabi wedding but the lyrics don’t mock-attack the in-laws. Main chaa wich paaya dudh, Modi ne chhed leyaa hun juddh. Ji, tussi ki piyonge. Chorus: Ik cup chaa. (I have added milk to tea...

Vinamrata Rai in Fire In The Mountains (2021) | Jar Pictures Ajitpal Singh’s debut feature Fire In The Mountains will be premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2021 in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section. The Jar Pictures production is the only Indian title among the 10 movies in this section. The 82-minute film is “about a mother who toils to save money to build a road in a remote Himalayan village to take her wheelchair-bound son for physiotherapy but her hu...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi met farmers on Tuesday, not in Delhi where tens of thousands are sitting on dharna for the past 18 days to demand the repeal of the new farm laws his government has brought, but in Gujarat where he declared that the laws have the support of “almost the entire country”. “Aaj kal, Dilli ke aas-paas kisano ko bhramit karne ki saazish chal rahi hai (These days, in Delhi’s vicinity, there is a conspiracy under way to mislead the farmers),” Modi said. After clai...

Apex industry chambers on Tuesday called for an early end to the deadlock over the new farm laws, stating that the protests are disrupting supply chains and affecting the post-Covid economic recovery. Attention is being drawn to the wider economic impact at a time the Prime Minister has been trying to project the farmers’ grievances and agitation as an isolated (“Dilli ke aas-paas”) phenomena. The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) estimated that around two-thirds of the consignments ...

For some years, Indian Muslims had lived in a collective nostalgia which contrasted with the humiliations of the present. This was now blended with a sense of imminent doom. Months before the bill was passed, I was combing the streets of Old Delhi, looking for the poet, Zauq, in his neglected shrine, and for Ghalib in his achkan and cap and beard, paired with his trademark air of rebellion. I wondered whether they, too, could be pulled by their beards or made to pull their pants down in their D...

‘Suno Kangana’ - Music Around the Farmers Protests Punjab’s singers go viral Every people’s movement is known to have its off shoots. The same is true with the present farmers’ agitation at the door steps of Delhi. It is reflected in the songs and the videos that are being dished out by mainstream Punjabi singers over the last few days. These songs are celebrating India’s plurality; Punjab’s constant striving for federal rights, its martial traditions and above all its youth. P...

The BJP has planned to hold over 700 press briefings and nearly 100 meetings during which the party will campaign in favour of the three farm laws brought in by the central govt.

The Environment Minister was addressing a press briefing ahead of an international summit, called the Climate Ambition Summit, to be jointly hosted by the United Nations, the United Kingdom and France, in partnership with Chile and Italy to mark the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Paris Agreement. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is among 78 leaders expected to address it. The Global Carbon Project, an authoritative group of dozens of international scientists who track emissions, calculate...

Tata Tea Gold celebrates the Bengali connoisseur Share Via: The tea brand places itself as the perfect answer when it comes to tea that packs flavour for the uncompromising and affable Bengalis. “The food connoisseur in every Bengali is legendary,” says the voice-over right off the bat in Tata Tea Gold’s ad. The minute-long ad is a take on how particular they (Bengalis) are. From jhalmuri on the street to mutton curry on a Sunday to hilsa in the fish market to the touch and feel...

Farmers' leaders have threatened to intensify their protest and block railway tracks, while the govt has urged them to consider its proposal and hold talks.